Orthography vs. Phonology

Orthographynoun

(linguistics) The study of correct spelling according to established usage.

Orthographynoun

The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.

Orthographynoun

: the specific method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.

Orthographynoun

(architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.

Orthographynoun

The art or practice of writing words with the proper letters, according to standard usage; conventionally correct spelling; also, mode of spelling; as, his orthography is vicious.

Orthographynoun

The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly.

Orthographynoun

A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.

Orthographynoun

The method of spelling the words of a particular language; the system of symbols used for writing a language.

Orthographynoun

The branch of linguistics concerned with how languages are written.

Orthographynoun

a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols

Orthography

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Most transnational languages in the modern period have a system of writing, and for most such languages a standard orthography has been developed, often based on a standard variety of the language, and thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language.

Phonologynoun

The study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.

Phonologynoun

The way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.

Phonologynoun

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

Phonologynoun

the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

Phonology

Phonology is a branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds (or signs, in sign languages). The term also refers to the sound system of any particular language variety.